Japan Leads Push For Hi Res Audio

A quarter of a century after the Walkman made music portable and turned Sony into a household name around the world, the company is hoping to set the agenda again with “high-res” audio. “It’s exactly one year since we put the first high-resolution audio players on the market and they have been very popular,” Sony’s head of audio Ichiro Takagi told journalists last week. Now the firm wants to “push the accelerator on the high-res product line”, he said. Via globalpost.com